In Italy one of the latest books by Dr. Joel Fuhrman has just been published, already known here for his excellent program “Eat to live”.
This is the book ” The nutritional diet ” which has as its subtitle ” The diet that scientifically prevents you from gaining weight “.

First of all, what is the nutritional diet?
Dr. Joel Fuhrman, as he had already anticipated in the book “Eat to Live”, is a physicist and nutrition expert who has been teaching a naturally nutritious diet for years . That is a diet based on foods that nourish the body without poisoning it, giving it that baggage of macro and micronutrients that allow it to live healthily and have greater immune defenses.
The nutritional diet is therefore a regime that has the basic idea that the body must be nourished, that food is used to nourish us and must therefore be classified as more or less nutritious.
We must reduce the consumption of less nutritious food and instead increase the consumption of nutritious foods that according to Fuhrman can be identified with easy rules that I will tell you later.

You may wonder what weight loss has to do with it.
What is the mechanism by which this nutritional diet would lead to weight loss?

THE NUTRITARIAN DIET. Why does it work?

We all want to lose weight and then NOT get it back.
But the classic diets that we do and that tend to either calorie restriction or the exclusion or strong reduction of a macronutrient (eg a protein diet that excludes carbohydrates) act as a boomerang on our metabolism, which tends to lower.

Since immune defenses, nourishment and metabolism are dependent on each other, the more I give my body what it asks for (the right nutrition), the less my body will retain fat mass “for defensive purposes” or for survival.

From this point of view, body fat is a defense of the organism, and overweight people are paradoxically undernourished.

We eat few nutritious foods and many foods with little nutritional value, for example industrial and refined products, which are abundant in supermarkets, are cheap and we consume them massively. But they do have calories.
And this, when it does not give us the right nutrients, paradoxically makes us increase hunger.
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